In Literary Biography (1971), the inaugural lecture for his appointment as Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Richard Ellmann affectionately quotes James Joyce's descrip...
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Teaching Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde Lesson Plans contain 113 pages of teaching material, including:
Sheridan Morley, a theater critic, broadcaster and author of many show-business biographies, has died at the age of 65.Morley, who wrote for such publications as The Times of London, Punch, The Spe...
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Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."Students participating in a novel design contest might rephrase the famous quotation to something like, "...
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Question 1 of 10:The future ‘bad boy of English fiction’ obtained a 3rd class degree from Oxford University. What did he study?English LiteratureEngineering
Philosophy
EconomicsQuestion...
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The Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, the Fray and other popular rock groups have joined to record songs from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in honor of Friday's 40th anniversary of the Beatles' ...
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London (dpa) - A rare love letter written by Napoleon Bonaparte to
Josephine, Viscomtesse de Beauharnais, his future wife, fetched more
than five times its estimated price w...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
HARRY'S SPELL (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
Most of the country saw glorious summer weather this weekend yet
many playgrounds and b...
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Background InfoBorn in
Queensland
on July 6 1951,
Geoffrey
Rush
first started acting while studying at university, when he volunteered for parts in student revues. This led to him being talent-...
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Question 1 of 10:Think hard, cast your mind back, and you might remember
Andrew
popping up on which cult sitcom?
Red Dwarf
Drop the Dead Donkey
Blackadder Goes Forth
Bottom
Question 2 of 10:...
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Question 1 of 10:Experts blamed pollution for the existence of what bizarre animal discovered in Weston-super-Mare in March?A metre-long salmonA pink snake
A three-headed frog
A green waspQuestion ...
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Richard (David) Ellmann
Theater critic Sheridan dies at 65
